News for ICT (IT & telecommunications) market

…exploring 800 MHz or 900 MHz can be awarded with 10 points for each frequency. In Poland only four mobile operators possess such frequencies. In addition, the value of network investments completed in the past three years and executing timely payments will be also very important factors for UKE.
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…implementing forecasting as well as budgeting and reporting systems as a method of effective cost management.
The research was conducted in enterprises with revenues reaching €100m per year in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Poland.
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…its own bank services as a result of acquiring Groupama Banque. In Poland, Orange Group wants to expand the multiple fibre FTTH, which range now reaches ca. 1.6m HP. Despite the fact that the cloud STB will not be implemented soon, the operator wants to introduce the cloud PVR next year.
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…of pay TV subscribers in Poland will drop from 10.8m in 2016 to 10.4m in 2022. In addition, Ampere Analysis report conducted on 53,000 viewers from North America and Europe shows, that people will still opt for both pay TV and internet services as Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime Video.
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…share of mini PCs within desktops rose from 18% in Q1 2016 to 25% in Q1 2017. It is due to the fact, that mini PCs are small, relatively lightweight, while their capacities are still growing. Lenovo, HP and Intel sold respectively 78%, 47% and 8% more devices than in 2016.
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…by 6% in Q1 2017, while at the same time the sales of traditional ink printers dropped by 21% in Q1 2017 compared to the corresponding period 2016. The biggest share in the sales of printing devices in Western Europe reached HP (47%), followed by Epson with 18% and Canon with 15%.
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…new area exposed to serious security risks, because such devices remain relatively poorly protected in comparison with a traditional computer equipment . According to cautious estimates of CERT, an average daily number of infected computers in Poland reached 20,000 units in 2016.
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…into data security. Interestingly, a year earlier only nearly 20% of the respondents perceived cybersecurity as a cloud strong point. Generally speaking, in the previous edition of this research conducted in 2016, each merit was mentioned about two times less likely than in 2017.
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The TV ad market in Russia grew by 10% in Q1 2017, compared to Q1 2016, reports broadbandtvnews.com. The National Advertising Agency (NRA) which controls 95% of TV advertising in Russia, in October 2016 announced, that the cost of TV ads will grow by 15% in 2017, whereas the… »

SimpleCell Networks, a Slovak telecommunications operator, will cover 90% of the country’s territory with Sigfox network for the Internet of Things, according to zive.sk. By the end of 2018, the operator plans to build up to 250 base stations. At present, SimpleCell covers more than 30%… »